different between rachet vs brachet

English

Noun

rachet (plural rachets)

1. Archaic form of ratchet.
   • 1922, International Reviw of the Science and Practice of Agriculture

     […] two lateral wheels can be removed: when on the machine they are equivalent, as supporting surface, to a drum 0,79 m. broad, but, as the wheels are provided with special rachets, turning is easier because the central wheel is pulled on at the same speed as the faster-moving lateral wheel.

Anagrams

• Cather, E chart, Thrace, archet, careth, charet, raceth, reacht, trache

English

Etymology

From Middle English brachet, from Old French brachet, a diminutive of Old Occitan brac, from Frankish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?æt???t/
• Rhymes: -æt??t

Noun

brachet (plural brachets)

1. (obsolete) A female hunting hound that hunts by scent.

See also

• brach

Anagrams

• Bachert, Chabert, batcher, braceth, rebatch

Old French

Alternative forms

• braquet

Etymology

Diminutive of Old French and Old Occitan brac (“hound”), from Old High German and Frankish *brakko, from Proto-Germanic *brak (“dog that hunts by scent”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?g- (“to smell”). Cognate with Old High German braccho.

Noun

brachet m (oblique plural brachez or brachetz, nominative singular brachez or brachetz, nominative plural brachet)

1. hunting dog trained to follow the scent of an animal

Descendants

• ? English: brachet

References

• “brachet” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• Weekley, Ernest (2013): An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English